!!!!!!!! ILX METAL ALBUMS of 2009 POLL RESULTS!!!!!! (FINAL RESULTS NOW IN! LISTENING TO THESE ALBUMS WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER FRAIL INTERNET PERSON!)

and bear in mind that initially it was stoner rockers that were into this band (in europe at least) before the band got labelled it and hated it and moved away from it.
xp

I'm honestly no expert on pigfuck, but I've heard Pissed Jeans mentioned as similar to that many times. And from what I have heard of pigfuck bands, there are similarities.

There's quite a run of great albums going on right now.

#22 , 205 Points , 10 votes , Two #1's

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Oneida - Rated O

don't even know where to start with Rated O, in a good way. i've listened maybe 5-7 times and can't find anything that isn't mind blowing about it

― I'M IN MIAMI, TRICK-OR-TREAT (Beatrix Kiddo),

OMG
am listening to 'rated o'

it is quite something

― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic),

It is feckin' brilliant.

― Doran,

okay, so i picked up Rated O the other day. holy shit this is great! by far by far BY FAR the best thing i've ever heard oneida do, like Each One Teach One made more and better longer louder crazier crazier world without end. on that note kinda funny how the MC who does vocals on the opening epic dub track even namechecks EOTO (each one a teacha waaaan).

surprised by the mixed reviews. i mean, if yr averse to epic length hammering on a single change (or chord!) this obviously isn't the band for you, but if yr at all interested in the space btwn heavy garage rock, noise & space/kraut hypnosis, this is the fucking GODHEAD. space ritual shit right here. three lps, each aesthetically/conceptually distinct, and all fucking fantastic. i even like "the human factor", which seems to be the sticking point/bellwether for folks who don't quite "get it". yeah, he's shrieking hoarsely for like five minutes, but it's kinda funny and the drumming is awesome.

SO glad i made time for this. instant top-of-the-heap album of the year contender, displacing a lot of potential favorites.

― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer),

Kid just emailed me the other day. He's sending me the triple vinyl. Stoked!

― Nate Carson,

Fucking great album

Don't recall Oneida having stoner rock attached to them at all as a thing but that doesn't mean it wasn't the case - I was really into 'Come On Everybody Let's Rock' (which I'll grant you is a red flag of a title, and also features a song about coke) when it came out (2001, 2002?) but didn't really have a handle of where they sprang from I don't think

trust me they did, it was because of that i bought their 1st or 2nd album. Kerrang definitely had them down as stoner rock for the album you mentioned.
Back when Kerrang was still decent pre-emo days.

Dudes! Off the rails! They're good albums an all, but this is indie rock!

#21 , 239 Points , 11 Points , One #1 vote

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Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars

I'm really liking the new Blut Aus Nord album. It is, as the Memoria Vetusta II title implies, a little more accessible than their last couple, but I kind of think that maybe (unlike with Deathspell Omega) they were closer to their personal strengths in that mode, and the combination of focus plus distance ("maturity"? experience?) sounds pretty good to me.

I've also been doing some remedial catalog-spelunking while things are still pretty quiet on the new-release front, and am really enjoying Ven Buens Ende's old album Written in Waters. A Black Metal Classic, I've been assured by the internet, but I had never heard of it until a few days ago. Excitingly strange, in no small part because it was done in 1995 before as many of the genre-tropes had been trope-ified.

― glenn mcdonald,

Switched over to the new blut aus nord instead. loving it on first listen. surprisingly melodic for a hypnotic, repetitive black metal album. (especially after that dissonance fest a couple years back.) plus, it swings.

― Alan N, Friday,

man, the blut aus nord is KILLER. I wish the longest track on it went on forever. and I found it on youtube! compressed as all hell but hey...

the melodic guitar leads on this are just fantastic. almost remind me of a more polished countess. work so well with the head-nodding drums.

and I've liked bits-and-pieces of what I've heard for blut aus nord before but I love this whole thing. well, maybe except for the generic black metal keyboard intro, but that's hardly offensive and kind of funny in a "how to make a black metal album" checklist kind of way.

― Alan N,

Wow, Blut Aus Nord has really found a perfect middle ground between their experimental side and raw black metal. Brilliant album..."Meditant" (Alan N is right) and "Disciple's Libration" really stand out, plenty of gorgeous melodies in there.

― A. Begrand,

from what I've heard of the new Blut Aus Nord, I am going to love this album for a long time.

― The Lost Boys Buff Guy Playing Sax (rockapads),

still loving that blut aus nord. anyone even mildly interested should check that one out, imo.

― picture me lolin' (Alan N),

Yeah, I like Oneida, but calling them (and Mount Eeerie) metal is pushing it. But then again, I voted for Amesoeurs, so what do I know?

so, I'm the only one voted blut aus nord at #1... :-/

also - wtf @ katatonia barely cracking the top 30!!!

Yeah, wow @ Oneida. I mean that was my overall fifth favorite album of the year, but no way was I voting for it here!

oneida are totally not metal but I think oneida dudes are in knyfe hits and they cover "running free" so oh well.

mind you, the album is first class

and I'll just say it again - the blut aus nord album is really special. check it out if you have any interest at all. masterpiece.

also - wtf @ katatonia barely cracking the top 30!!!

It kind of mirrors the album's sales. I was one of two people who gave it a Pazz & Jop vote, too.

Hey guys remember to go vote in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~FINALLY - 2009 ILX Albums 'n' Trax Poll voting thread ahoy~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ballots due TOMORROW)

I'll start the top 20 about midday prob, will try finish by midnight UK time so americans at work can see it.

Thanks again for all your hard work!

oh and since i didnt do it upthread, thx to glenn for all the work he put into this, esp considering i was a chump and didn't send in my ballot on time.

Glenn rules!
JJ can you change thread title to 20 (Final Day Of Poll Results) now?

Everyone reading feel free to have a guess at predicting what will make it as well as what you think of the poll and the albums in it so far.
Good conversation on the thread makes it all worthwhile especially if ilxors then discover stuff they may otherwise have missed.

The top 20 might have albums you will be surprised are in it, surprised at being lower than you thought, higher than you thought and maybe even something you expected to make it wont. Perhaps the order will surprise you.

It was very close btw so no runaway winner like last year.
So lets the predictions and suspense start now!

And finally for tonight

A recap of 100-21

100. Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor
99. Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star
98. Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness
97. Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover
96. Saviours - Accelerated Living
92. Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
Saros - Acrid Plains
Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
91. Revocation - Existence Is Futile
90. Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
88. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
87. Anvil - This Is Thirteen
86. Vom - Primitive Arts
85. Altar of Plauges - White Tomb
84. 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
83. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
82. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
81. Gnaw - This Face
80. Jodis - Secret House
78. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat the Eyes From the Leviathan's Carcass
Behemoth - Evangelion
76. Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine - The Audacity of Hype
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
75. Black Boned Angel - Verdun
74. Megadeth - Endgame
73. SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells
72. Magrudergrind - S/T
71. Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
70. Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
69. Voivod - Infini
68. Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
67. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
66. Melvins - Chicken Switch
65. Hacride - Lazarus
64. Nadja and Black Boned Angel - S/T
63. Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity
62. Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
61. Lifelover - Dekadens
60. Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
59. Xasthur - All Reflections Drained
58. Bloody Panda - Summon
57. Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
56. Greymachine - Disconnected
55. Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis
54. Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga
53. Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
52. Jesu - Infinity
51. Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps
50. Part Chimp - Thriller
49. Pyramids With Nadja - S/T
48. Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV
47. Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
46. Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
45. Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
44. Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
43. Big Business - Mind the Drift
42. Portal - Swarth
41. Coalesce - Ox
40. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
39. Immortal - All Shall Fall
38. Marduk - Wormwood
37. Pelican - What We All Come to Need
36. Orthodox - Sentencia
35. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
34. Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
33. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
32. Drudkh - Microcosmos
31. Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God
30. Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick
29. Jesu - Opiate Sun
28. Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
27. Tombs - Winter Hours
26. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
25. Absu - Absu
24. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
23. Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
22. Oneida - Rated O
21. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars

Amesoeurs/Absu/Funeral Mist is my favorite run so far. Maranatha slipped a little ways down my list, in the end, but that was due to other greatnesses, not my getting sick of it at all. Amesoeurs I liked a few songs better than others. Blut Aus Nord I cooled on in the same way I did with their last album: the more attention I paid to it, the more samey it started sounding to me. Which is the opposite of what happens to me with Deathspell Omega, to whom Blut Aus Nord are often compared.

Sadly, most of the bands I personally care about have now gone by. But not quite all, and there's something very interesting waiting to happen with one of them...

But you guys will have to wait to find out who he means..

So, any thoughts about big hitters (as in mainstream-ish or long-term popular acts) yet to place? Slayer? Lamb Of God? Pearl Jam? Mastodon? We've already had Megadeth, of course...

― Neil S, Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:27 (Yesterday)

thinking mastodon will make top ten
lamb of god and slayer in top twenty

― D@n P3rry is the drummer on Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (jjjusten),

Join in the guesses. Will they all make it? Who will make the top 10? Any surprise omissions or placings?
You will find out friday...

Oh and anyone wanting to write blurbs? pm them to me.

you forgot to mention my deep hope that pearl jam eats shit in this poll xpost

Apparently I missed something re: Pearl Jam.

There's always gonna be disappointments for some people, john. (thanks for changing the title)

Who would you like to see in the top 20? (everyone can answer that)

I love that Pissed Jeans record, and I'm glad it posted high. In lieu of any new Jesus Lizard material (and I'm unsure if that would be a good thing anyway), its the best noise rock going IMO.

I'm going out on a limb - number one will be Converge.

I still think it will be Baroness or Sunn0)))) personally.

Will you be waiting until our North American friends are about, Pfunkboy? If so I'll actually be able to get some work done this morning!

Yeah another hour til I start posting i think, so speculate away!

Fingers crossed for YOB, but it'll probably be Baroness.

what about the top twenty in general? what do you guys hope to be in it or expect to see in it?

Before I post the top 20 here are what the big magazines had in their lists of 2009 so you can see what critics thought of last year.

KERRANG

20 Kylesa - Static Tensions
19 Placebo - Battle For The Sun
18 Leathermouth - XO
17 Lamb of God - Wrath
16 The Ghost of a Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations
15 Steel Panther - Fight The Steel
14 The Wildhearts - Chutzpah!
13 Alexisonfire - OldCrows/Young Cardinals
12 Enter Shikari - Common Dreads
11 Brand New - Daisy
10 Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
9 The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
8 Paramore - Brand New Eyes
7 Converge - Axe To Fall
6 Pearl Jam - Backspacer
5 Mariachi El Bronx - El Bronx
4 Mastodon - Crack The Skye
3 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
2 Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
1 Gallows - Grey Britain

DECIBEL

1. Baroness-The Blue Record
2. Converge-Axe To Fall
3. Coalesce- Ox
4. Napalm Death-Time Waits No Slave
5. Cobalt-Gin
6. Kylesa-Static Tensions
7. Slayer-World Painted Blood
8. Tombs-Winter Hours
9. Marduk-Wormwood
10. Isis-Wavering Radiant
11. Immortal-All Shall Fall
12. Agoraphobic Nosebleed-Agorapocalypse
13. Obscura-Cosmogenesis
14. Magrudergrind-S/T
15. Nile-Those Whom The Gods Detest
16. YOB- The Great Cessation
17. Mastodon-Crack The Skye
18. Paradise Lost-Fath Divides Us,Death Unites Us
19. The Atlas Moth-A Glorified Piece Of Blue Sky
20. Asphyx-Death...The Brutal Way
21. Altar of Plagues-White Tomb
22.Mournful Congregation-The June Frost
23. Funeral Mist-Maranatha
24. The Gates of Slumber-Hymns Of Blood And Thunder
25. Burnt by the Sun-Heart Of Darkness
26. City of Ships-Look What God Did To Us
27. Goatwhore-Carving Out The Eyes Of God
28. Gaza-He Is Never Coming Back
29. Katatonia-Night Is The New Day
30. Keelhaul-Keelhaul's Triumphannt Return To Obscurity
31. The Red Chord-Fed Through The Teeth Machine
32. Brutal Truth-Evolution Through Revolution
33. Krallice-Dimensional Bleedthrough
34. Culted-Below The Thunders Of The Upper Deep
35. Goes Cube-Another Day Has Passed
36. Suffocation-Blood Oath
37. Javelina-Beasts Among Sheep
38. Municipal Waste-Massive Aggressor
39. Millions-Gather Scatter
40. Funebrarum-The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams

TERRORIZER

1: Converge - Axe To Fall
2: Cobalt - Gin
3: Kylesa - Static Tensions
4: Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
5: Napalm Death - Time Waits No Slave
6: Mastodon - Crack The Skye
7: Megadeth – Endgame
8: Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
9: Funeral Mist - Maranatha
10: Immortal - All Shall Fall
11: Drudkh - Microcosmos
12: Beherit - Engram
13: Portal - Swarth
14: Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
15: Marduk - Wormwood
16: Absu - Absu
17: Tombs - Winter Hours
18: Burnt by the Sun - Heart Of Darkness
19: Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
20: Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
21: Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
22: Baroness - Blue Record
23: Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
24: The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore
25: Archgoat - the Light Devouring Darkness
26: Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer
27: Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
28: Hacride - Lazarus
29: Fuckpig- Spewings from A Selfish Nation
30: Amorphis - Skyforger
31: Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
32: Greymachine - Disconnected
33: Behemoth - Evangelion
34: Unanimated - In the Light of Darkness
35: Obscura - Cosmogenesis
36: Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
37: Shrinebuilder - S/T
38: Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
39: Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
40: Evile - Infected Nations

That Cobalt record might be in with a shout.

Are we ready for # 20?

#20 , 253 Points , 13 votes

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Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvu3UhXeLg8

This record was received as Lightning Bolt's metal record, and it certainly has some extremely heavy moments.

Really, though, its more of the same, but when more of the same is the crushing grooves and drill-'n-bass played live, its difficult to resist.

Diminishing returns don't really apply to Lightning Bolt: its more a matter of honing and refining an aesthetic defined by pounding a single, brilliant, idea into the ground.

The question of whether it's metal is moot: when you're this good, genre ceases to be an issue.

Neil S

Like what I've heard. Kinda gives off a Gravitar/Helios Creed/Hawkwind vibe at points, less of a spastic joy than their other stuff.

― te reo speedwagon (CharlieS),

I like it. it sounds like lightning bolt. but I've come to accept that they'll never really change all that much and that this is OK.

― picture me lolin' (Alan N),

last track does indeed rule. love the little dubby touches on the drums that pop off here and there.

― picture me lolin' (Alan N),

Solid all the way through

― van smack,

I'm guessing noone thought that would be top 20.

I voted it pretty high because I thought it banged hard, seems like the thing to do

sick of not-metal being on the metal poll

No-one has mentioned The Gates of Slumber yet in terms of stuff yet to place - a lot of ppl on rolling metal were gay for it myself very much included. Top 10, I'm calling it

"Sick of"

This is so lame. I remember what people like you said about grindcore etc etc fucking etc when that first came up. Stop whingeing.

Being into metal isn't primarily about being an uptight, rule following stick in the mud.

Curtis is just joking , Doran.

ready for #19?

Sorry Curtis. I am, on the other hand, extremely uptight and unable to perceive humour in any aspect of my shoddy life.